2 Kings 14:24
But the king said: Let him return into his house, and let him not see my face. So Absalom returned into his house, and saw not the king's face.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dixit autem rex : Revertatur in domum suam, et faciem meam non videat. Reversus est itaque Absalom in domum suam, et faciem regis non vidit.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν ὁ βασιλεύς Ἀποστραφήτω εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ, καὶ τό πρόσωπόν μου μὴ βλεπέτω· καὶ ἀπέστρεψεν Ἀβεσσαλὼμ εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὸ πρόσωπον τοῦ βασιλέως οὐκ εἶδεν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶר הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ֙ יִסֹּ֣ב אֶל בֵּית֔וֹ וּפָנַ֖י לֹ֣א יִרְאֶ֑ה וַיִּסֹּ֤ב אַבְשָׁלוֹם֙ אֶל בֵּית֔וֹ וּפְנֵ֥י הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ לֹ֥א רָאָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Face, though he lived in Jerusalem. (Calmet)
This was done, in order that he might enter seriously into himself, and avoid similar excesses. (Menochius)
He felt this privation more than exile. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.